He is pretty good at listening when there are not distractions. He was so ADD during the shoot and would only sit for a treat for about 5 seconds. He is still a puppy after all, not that he looks like it. We were downtown at the Chateau Bellevue, so tons of traffic, and all he wanted to do was eat the rose petals off the ground. Silly pup. She did get this amazing picture of him and the model.
Isn't he beautiful?? The poor model - he can pull like no other if he wants to, so I told her to just let go if he gets to be too much. It's an art to look good and man handle a 90lb dog. :o) You've got to see the rest of the pictures she posted - amazing! I love them!!
Before we left, she also snapped a few candid shots of Steel, because she is just that sweet.
Now an update on our sweet Bella bear... Her surgery leg is doing much better, and she is walking a ton better on it. The swelling has gone down, no more bruising, and now we just have to wait until Monday to get the staples removed. Sounds great right? Yea, except Bella is never that easy. I compare her to D and all of this random health surprises..
I know I mentioned her other back foot was swollen in my last post. Well of course that didn't just go away nicely. The swelling started to go down, but then her pads started peeling off. At this point I was really worried about an infection and who knows what else. We took her back to the specialty hospital last Saturday and had an internal medicine doctor look at it. I go through the run down of events and say that she hasn't been licking it, but it is leaking (the best way to describe it) from the bottom of her paw. She takes her back and Bella was not running a temperature, but she says she thinks it's just from the swelling and that it's peeling because she has been licking it. At this point I was extremely frustrated, because I just sat there and told her that we've been watching her closely and she HADN'T been licking it. Ugh. So we leave with some antibiotics and I keep watching it. Well the pad was not getting better. In fact most of the large pad was completely off and the full pad was off of one of her top toes. We asked if we should cover it or clean it and they just say to keep it clean by wiping it with a warm water rag. Okay we were doing that - still no change.
Finally on Monday, I take her out and wipe her foot off and see this. {warning - it's not a pretty picture)
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Immediately I thought, this is not right. To me it looked like some kind of growth, terrible bacteria, grossness! I had Scott help me take this picture, because it hurts her to touch her pad. I'm talking about that black/brownish thing on the pink tissue, not me pulling back the pad. I send this picture to D and I send it to the specialty clinic via email. I get a call that afternoon and they still don't think it's really anything but an infection. Again, no additional treatment, just the antibiotics. When it continued to peel off and still nothing had changed in that day, I finally called my regular vet. I tried to describe it to him and he had me send him this exact same picture to his phone. He called me back and said that it was not normal and asked what medicine she was on. All 4 of them are good, but he said we needed to get an antibiotic cream to get rid of something like this. When I asked him if we should be wrapping it or cleaning it, he said absolutely. He understood that it's impossible to keep her foot clean and actually get this heeled.
FINALLY. I felt like we were headed in the right direction. I don't think it was that hard of a stretch to understand that something was going on with her foot. So, it will still take a while to fully heal, but I feel better about it. The more we see our regular vet, the more I love him.
xxoo B
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